{"id":474301,"date":"2025-10-04T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:19:10","slug":"contract-work-offers-valuable-opportunities-amid-full-time-hiring-slowdown-expert-advises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474301\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract work offers valuable opportunities amid full-time hiring slowdown, expert advises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Full time jobs are becoming more difficult to find in the second half of 2025.  Research done by Robert Half shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthalf.com\/us\/en\/insights\/research\/august-2025-labor-market-update-for-employers-and-job-seekers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.roberthalf.com\/us\/en\/insights\/research\/august-2025-labor-market-update-for-employers-and-job-seekers\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">67% of companies are relying on contract and project-based<\/a> hiring through the end of this year, at least.<\/p>\n<p>With market uncertainty, hiring for full-time positions is constrained at many companies, a technology jobs expert at Robert Half, Megan Slabinski, said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd employers still have a need to keep the business going and keep momentum going throughout the end of the year to meet year end goals, project deadlines and try and avoid burnout,\u201d Slabinski said.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, many of those companies are turning to contracted work, Slabinski said that work stretches across departments like finance, legal and customer support.<\/p>\n<p>Her advice to job searchers? Don\u2019t say no to those opportunities right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to not minimize the opportunity that comes with a contract hiring opportunity,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to often times expand your network, gain new skills and projects, ramp up quickly, and often they lead to full time hiring within an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, those contracted positions turn into full-time jobs, according to Slabinski. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to prove the need for adding full-time staff,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you can bring in a contract employee and show increased productivity, better results, the ROI, it really can help emphasize the need to later in that full time talent for employers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other advice from Slabinski is to use your network to go beyond searching for jobs online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Full time jobs are becoming more difficult to find in the second half of 2025. Research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,130952,157624,28807,897,45861,87225,3393,157625,99293,16,15],"class_list":["post-474301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-contract-work","tag-full-time-hiring","tag-job-opportunities","tag-jobs","tag-market-uncertainty","tag-network-expansion","tag-productivity","tag-project-based-hiring","tag-talent-acquisition","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115317753569507825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}